Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Rebuilding New Zealand's prehistoric landscape.

Sound effects I use for my videos: bit.ly/2WI2aJ7

Contact Me: hello@aidinrobbins.com

Further Reading:
The Natural History of Southern New Zealand: tinyurl.com/34b7kzu2
Neville Peat and Brian Patrick - Wild Fiordland: tinyurl.com/3bcr73sw
Eric Pawson & Tom Brooking - Making a New Land: Environmental Histories of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/ye3d776f
Dominick A. DellaSala - Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: tinyurl.com/3xe9r2x3
Te Ara - Gondwana: tinyurl.com/4cxzdh2n
Te Ara - European Discovery of NZ: tinyurl.com/yc8baeaf
Cook's Journal: archive.org/details/cihm_14800/page/n5/mode/2up
Britannica - James Cook: britannica.com/biography/James-Cook
Wellcome Collection - Acclimatisation Societies: tinyurl.com/2f5xavea
Te Ara - Acclimatisastion Societies: tinyurl.com/n7dtam8z
Atlas Obscura - Richard Henry: tinyurl.com/2s374c6p
Te Ara - Richard Henry: tinyurl.com/5kpmhr4f
DOC - Kakapo: tinyurl.com/2ck73b4e
CNN - Intro Article: geni.us/stoat

Photos:
Mammoth cave painting:
geni.us/mammoth
Chauvet cave paintings: tinyurl.com/ybyxxzxm
Museum of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/4uc6f93h
National Library of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/4vka5jsc
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Archives New Zealand: bit.ly/4kKP5b8
Auckland Libraries: tinyurl.com/mu2fjksj
Wellcome Collection: tinyurl.com/4xc9eexc
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University of Otago - Richard Henry: tinyurl.com/43py6bcv
Library of Congress: loc.gov/item/92520121
loc.gov/item/2004707870
Te Ara - Kakapo: tinyurl.com/3u6xzf2u

Illustrations:
John Gerrard Keulemans - A History of the Birds of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/y273vx3f
Arthur William Baden Powell - Native Animals of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/2894vr44
John Megahan: geni.us/haasts
Yellow eyed penguin: tinyurl.com/5ywj8mec
JR Norman & FC Fraser - Giant Fishes, Whales, and Dolphins
New Zealand Grayling: bit.ly/4iKdKL9
Polynesian Rat: tinyurl.com/3vcn98ev
National Library: natlib.govt.nz/records/22338186
natlib.govt.nz/records/22768034
natlib.govt.nz/records/22859055
natlib.govt.nz/records/23220924
natlib.govt.nz/records/22748258
natlib.govt.nz/records/22766877
digitalnz.org/records/35288127
William Potts: tinyurl.com/ynphv62m
Museum of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/yckuu7ew
Acclimatisation Society: tinyurl.com/y7rwx7kk
Richard Owen - Memoirs on the Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand: tinyurl.com/4r2w3u6h
Kennett Watkins - Waikato River: bit.ly/4kJo9bJ
Charles Blomfield: bit.ly/4kKhQoi
Alfred Sharpe: bit.ly/4iJHaZM
Eugène von Guérard: bit.ly/4hM9t9f
Abel Tasman: tinyurl.com/yc8ehr8b
British Library: imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/617
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Maps/Graphics:
Gondwana breakup: tinyurl.com/2p8drz2z
Polynesia and Australia: bit.ly/4iOHHtE
New Zealand vintage map: tinyurl.com/55pdnnvp
Grassland conversion: tinyurl.com/yeymukzv
Maori land loss: tinyurl.com/h6vjsaz6
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Tasman's map: tinyurl.com/3na3fzje
Cook's maps: tinyurl.com/bddwt35k
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World map w/ Cook's voyages: tinyurl.com/ytu76ap7
World map: bit.ly/4iIBGOX
Fiordland map: tinyurl.com/y6nfj658

Archival Documents:
Nieuw Zeeland: bit.ly/4iu48oa
Treaty of Waitangi: geni.us/treaty
geni.us/treaty2
geni.us/treaty3
Otago Acclimatisation Society: tinyurl.com/y3xe8t3k
Tongariro Park: tinyurl.com/2rjeafxz
Takahe: tinyurl.com/49nt8m4h
Save Manapouri: geni.us/manapouri
Environmental posters: tinyurl.com/t5nsh5hb
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natlib.govt.nz/records/22822181
tinyurl.com/24kb6ahs

0:00 - Intro
2:06 - Zealandia
7:14 - Aotearoa
10:36 - New Zealand
20:11 - Islands
23:56 - Change
25:35 - Rebuilding
30:04 - The Last Refuge

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